The thread in the children's book section got me wondering what if any comics/graphic novels people read.I myself am a big fan of any deadpool among most marvel stuff, also a lot of stuff in CLINT magazine and watchmen.

If you can fill the unforgiving minute,With sixty seconds worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a man my son.

Hmm...I've found, mostly through experience rather than any preference per se, that I'm a DC kind of guy, or to be more precise, a Vertigo kind of guy. I used to think I preferred Marvel over DC. I also enjoy a lot of manga.

Let's see. Graphic novels I have enjoyed...

*Watchmen

*The Sandman

*V for Vendetta

*Batman (particularly The Killing Joke and Year One)

*Kingdom Come

*Transmetropolitan

*The Unwritten

*Hellboy

*The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

*Sin City

I also have some Terry Pratchett graphic novel adaptations, as well as the Doctor Who comic compilations The Mark of Mandragora, and Oblivion.

As far as manga are concerned, my favourites are:

*Neon Genesis Evangelion (better than the anime series, IMO)

*Azumanga Daioh

*Death Note

*Monster

One of my most prized possessions is a copy of Watchmen, which I recently got signed by Dave Gibbons.

I'm not much for graphic novels, but recently I have read two long-term-but-ended webcomics that are also in print which I consider to qualify as genuinely being novels: Digger, by Ursula Vernon, and Narbonic, by Shaenon Garrity. If they had been written entirely in words instead of mainly in pictures, they would still have the elements of a novel, and in my opinion, would still be worth reading.

When I was in my teens and 20's I read Heavy Metal magazine, Silver Surfer, Groo the Wanderer & 2000AD. I stopped reading comics out of my 20's and have only just started reading them again in the last few years.

Haven't really gotten much lately. But used to be big into the ninja turtles comics. think I have almost 100 of them.

I was for a time trying to collect all the comics covered in the death and life of superman novel. everything from the reveal of doomsday through his death, the funeral, the rise of the 4 supermen,up to his return and the defeat of cyborg. I got most of them, but the comic shop i went to was spotty, and i didn't always have the money.

But, i have to say i'm more of a marvel fan. have a bunch of random selections from various comics. and always wanted to read the civil war and those connecting arcs.

"The reason an author needs to know the rules of grammar isn't so he or she never breaks them, but so the author knows how to break them."

I've started to read Batwoman. Good female hero. I used to read Wonder Woman and the Justice League comics from DC years ago when comics shops still existed. Now I buy Batwoman to read on the IPad. It works pretty well actually but having the actual object of a comic is something I miss.

Jonah Hex has been on my list for a long time as well. Thanks for reminding me. Come to think of it, so has Preacher. I've been wanting to get into that one for years now, ever since I read an excerpt when visiting a comic loving friend.

“It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”

A Redtail's Dream is now into the epilogue. It's gorgeous. I've been following it online for over a year. I didn't get into the kickstarter, but next spring the book (over 500 full-color pages) will be in print!

Where do you all buy your comic books? Online or in specific shops? Comic book shops are very sparse these days. Theres one I'm going to visit in Melksham next week which also sells hot sauce apart from anything else, lol. ( Komix)